August 21, 2024
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
The Norovirus and not the water supply network is to blame for dozens of gastroenteritis cases on the island of Gavdos in south-eastern Aegean Sea. These was the result of laboratory tests published by the Hospital in Chania, Crete, on Wednesday, The norovirus typically occurs in conditions of overcrowding or …
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July 22, 2024
Economy, FEATURED
More than 100 veterinarians have been send to Central Greece to conduct health checks to sheep and goat as a serious outbreak of highly contagious of ovine rinderpest or cattle pest, a virus infecting sheep and goats. At the same time, the Regional Governor of Thessaly has ordered the closure …
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June 3, 2024
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Over 100 people in the prefecture of Magnisia have suffered from gastroenteritis symptoms in the last couple of days and one infected elderly woman died on Monday. One hundred people, among them elderly and children, have been hospitalized in the hospitals of Volos, Larissa and Velestino. There are indication that …
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March 22, 2022
CORONAVIRUS
The first cruise ship of the year arrived at the port of Kavala in northern Greece spreading optimism about tourism arrivals in 2022. However, coronavirus infections have been detected on board and according to preliminary information only crew members are ill. Cruise ship MS EUROPA of the German Hapag-Lloyd arrived …
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December 21, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Eight elderly people died of Covid-19 complications in a nursery home in Patras, western Peloponnese in recent days. The overwhelming majority of them, seven in total, were not vaccinated. Two more people in the same home died from causes other than the pandemic even though they were also tested positive …
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November 19, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
At least 40 inmates in Diavata prison by Thessaloniki have been tested positive for Covid-19 during a testing drive carried out this week. The inmates have reportedly either mild symptoms or not at all. According to media reports approximately three quarters of the prisoners have been vaccinated against Covid-19. A …
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July 9, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Coronavirus outbreak with dozens of infected children in Chania and Halkidiki have set Greek health authorities on alert on Friday. Affected are two children summer camps in Chania, western Crete, and Halkidiki, Central Macedonia. The camp in Chania was shut down after over 30 children aged were tested positive for …
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May 28, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Lockdown restrictions will be imposed locally also in the middle of summer and the tourism season in the event that an increase of the epidemiological burden is recorded, head of Civil Protection and deputy minister Nikos Hardalias said on Friday evening. At the weekly briefing on Friday, Hardalias listed the …
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March 31, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, Tourism
The deputy governor of the Mount Athos monastic community in northern Greece, Aristos Kasmiroglou, has extended a suspension of pilgrimages to the peninsula until April 15, the foreign ministry announced on Wednesday. Additionally, anyone wishing to enter the all-male community must undergo precautionary checks at the ports of entry. On …
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February 22, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
32 elderly in a nursing home in Athens have been tested positive to Covid-19 and 18 of them have been already transferred to reference hospitals in the Greek capital since Sunday. The cases are among elderly residents and workers in the nursing home in Peristeri suburb of western Athens. The …
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January 30, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
A total of 50 new coronavirus cases have been confirmed Agios Nikolaos Municipality, eastern Crete, setting health authorities on alert. They step up testing and monitoring to contain bigger spread of the virus in the 10,000-resident area. Among the 50 positive tests reported in the last couple of days, 20 …
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December 30, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Greece’s Civil Protection announced on Wednesday evening that a stricter lockdown is imposed on the island of Kalymnos in the Dodecanese in the south-eastern Aegean Sea. The decision has been taken following evaluation of the epidemiological load data, the age stratification of the inhabitants of the island, the results of …
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December 9, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Αlarm in western Macedonia after Covid-19 outbreak in eleven mink farms, while three more are in suspicion to have infected animals. The farms, several of them with a large number of animals, are located in the regional units of Kastoria and Grevena. In Kastoria, animals positive to the virus have …
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October 24, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Forty-seven people have been tested positive to coronavirus at the refugee reception and identification center VIAL on the island of Chios in the last two days, the National Public Health Organisation EODY said on Friday. The infected are refugees and workers at the camp. Some 767 tests were carried out …
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October 9, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Greece is temporarily freezing plans to introduce new restrictive measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus because citizens are fatigued, government spokesman Stelios Petsas said on Friday morning. He even announced that the government may consider to extend the operation of restaurants, bars and similar facilities until 1 o’ …
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August 1, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Coronavirus alarm in the prefecture of Kavala in north-eastern Greece: 24 workers at a meat procession plant have been tested positive on Covid-19. The fact that they are asymptomatic has increased concerns in an area that already counts infections due to tourists arrivals. National Public Health Organization (EODY) confirmed Saturday …
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April 2, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Heath and local authorities are urging residents on the island of Mykonos to stay at home, after the first case of coronavirus was confirmed on Thursday. 69-year-old woman was transported from Mykonos to a designated hospital in Athens earlier on Thursday. The woman was initially in the health center of …
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September 21, 2017
Very Mix
At least six doctors working at major public hospitals in Athens have been infected with the measles virus as new cases of the highly contagious disease are been recorded in Greece on a daily basis. According to information of news website in.gr, all infected doctors were born after 1970, which …
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September 18, 2017
Very Mix
Measles are on the rise also in Greece and health authorities point to a spike in infections cases in the last four months. Alone in Corinth, in north-eastern Peloponnese, 18 children were hospitalized and some of them were transferred to hospitals in Athens due to the severity of the cases. …
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August 2, 2017
Very Mix
One elderly woman from Argolida in Eastern Peloponnese died from West Nile virus infection on Wednesday. She is the first victim this year of the disease that is transited through the bite of a mosquito infected with the virus. The 90-year-old woman was infected with the West Nile virus, got …
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